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Abay has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. His expertise includes joint replacements, sports injuries, and complex fractures. He places emphasis on optimising each patient with respect to their existing medical issues, nutrition, physical conditioning, mental well-being, and ensuring each patient has robust care at home to offer truly comprehensive care for all patients.

Raised in regional New South Wales, Abay completed high school in Orange; and Medical School through the University of New South Wales. He was accepted on to and completed Orthopaedic Surgical training in Perth, through the Western Australian Training Scheme and became a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Abay has a passion for providing high-quality health care to rural and regional areas, and worked in Bunbury and Busselton prior to heading abroad for his Fellowships,

Dr Sundaram travelled with his family to the United Kingdom to complete 2 internationally-revered Fellowships. He completed 12 months of pelvic and acetabular trauma at St George's Hospital, London, one of the city's 4 Major Trauma Centres. Although the job title was pelvic and acetabular trauma, Abay had the privilege of working under the mentorship of the entire trauma department, developing sub-specialist expertise in complex fractures and soft tissue injuries of the upper and lower limbs.

His second 12 month fellowship was in Oxford, working at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. The volume and complexity of joint replacement cases performed by the team were amongst the highest in Europe. The centre specialises in joint replacement of the hip and knee, with a particular focus on peri-operative optimisation and day-stay/ambulatory joint replacement surgery. It is also the largest bone and joint infection referral centre in the United Kingdom.